Author Archives: Paul Fletcher

LIFE IS GOOD. A beautiful fall weekend…fall color just beginning to turn…Canadian geese pausing for a breather on their way south…the Wahoo football team out of town (on their way to spoiling a possible undefeated season with a loss at ...

A secretary who alleges she quit her job after learning that her boss put a camera under her desk to photograph her crotch area can bring a Bowman wrongful discharge claim, a Rockingham Circuit judge has ruled. The case is ...

Even though the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled in January that a newspaper had no duty to protect its carriers from criminal acts, a carrier who was sexually assaulted on her route can sue the newspaper she worked for, a ...

A year ago, the Supreme Court of Virginia released a decision that altered the landscape of employment law. In Doss v. Jamco Inc., (VLW 097-6-106), the high court upheld the Lockhart amendments to the Virginia Human Rights Act. The amendments ...

A litigator answering a discovery request would be required to tell an opponent about any documents that are withheld under a claim of privilege or other protection, pursuant to a proposed change to the Rules of Court. The measure is ...

The handling of a real estate closing is the practice of law, under Unauthorized Practice Law Opinion 183, which was approved by the Supreme Court of Virginia on Sept. 25. Approval of the opinion provides a punctuation point to two ...

The proposed Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct are now under consideration by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The Virginia State Bar filed a petition on Sept. 24, requesting that the court adopt the rules. The action culminated five years of ...

Where a salesman breached a noncompete provision in his contract with a manufacturing company, he must pay double his profit and double the company’s losses, under a case out of Loudoun County. When the case was on appeal to the ...

Fairfax Circuit Judge Gerald Bruce Lee has been confirmed as a federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia. The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to confirm Lee last Tuesday. He will succeed Judge James C. Cacheris, who took senior status ...

When assessing a business license tax against lawyers, a local government in Virginia should not use a figure that includes the full amount of any settlements the lawyer passes through his or her bank accounts, according to an advisory opinion ...